[Coco] Including an SSC (was: CocoSDC)

[S Klammer]

Understood and would agree.  Just thought an addition of this nature, even
if it were just a set of headers for a daughterboard, might have made it
just that much more awesome :)

I've not played with a SSC in awhile; however, had thought it might have
been possible to emulate into a CPLD.

At any rate, I do look forward to more people being able to use Darren's (I
can not add enough emphasis) great work!

Shain
On Oct 10, 2014 10:57 AM, "Zippster" <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:

> There won’t be any changes for this run.
> We’d have to go through prototyping and testing, and I think there
> are enough people wanting Darren’s (awesome) board as it is now.
>
> - Ed
>
> On Oct 10, 2014, at 9:07 AM, tim lindner <tlindner at macmess.org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 6:49 AM, S Klammer <sklammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Although Darren's CocoSDC is great on its own (I do have one)... since
> so
> >> many units are being requested, would it be a thought to try and
> include an
> >> onboard SSC and/or Orch90?
> >
> > As someone who has extensively studied the internals of the SSC, I
> > would say it is not worth it.
> >
> > http://tlindner.macmess.org/?page_id=96
> >
> > The SSC is a whole extra computer sitting on the CoCo's bus. The MPU
> > is custom and not available.
> >
> > It would be much better (for the software developer) for the PSG to be
> > directly connected to the CoCo. While this would suck for software
> > already written for the SSC. It would make new software more
> > streamlined.
> >
> > As far as the Orch-90, that hardware is dead simple. Programs that use
> > the Orch-90 for sound don't usually do much else. The CPU overhead for
> > the device is huge.
> >
> > Personally, I would not want the SDC to contain a major change on this
> run.
> >
> > A PSG and Orch-90 card would make a great project for the CoCo
> > development board mentioned elsewhere on the list.
> >
> > Footnote: PSG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_Sound_Generator
> >
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